Gonzalo Fernández De Córdoba (1585

Gonzalo Andrés Domingo Fernández de Córdoba (31 December 1585 – 16 February 1635) was one of the main Spanish military leaders during the

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, and the War of the Mantuan Succession

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Biography

He was born at Cabra, in what is now the Province of Córdoba and was the third son of Antonio Fernández de Córdoba Cardona y Requesens, the Duke of Soma and was great grandchild of his namesake Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba

Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (1 September 1453 – 2 December 1515) was a Spanish general and statesman who led successful military campaigns during the Conquest of Granada and the Italian Wars. His military victories and widespread po ...
, ''the Great Capitan''. He was one of the principal commanders in the Catholic alliance under the Imperial
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general Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly

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in the successful battles of Wimpfen

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and Höchst.

From 1621 to 1623 he commanded units of the Army of Flanders in the Palatinate, and Flanders

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, and defeated the Anglo-German Protestant forces in the sieges of Bacharach

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and Heidelberg

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and the Dutch at Fleurus

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In 1624 was awarded the title of the first Prince of Maratea by King Philip IV of Spain, and in 1630 he was awarded the title of Prince of the Holy Roman Empire by the Emperor Ferdinand II.

From 1625 to 1629 he was Governor of the Duchy of Milan. In 1628 he took part in the War of the Mantuan Succession

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. When he failed to take Casale and stop the French invasion in 1629, he was called back to Madrid

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and court-martialed.

He was reinstated a few years later and sent to the Netherlands

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in 1632. Here he conducted operations on the lower Rhine in the rear of the victorious army of Gustavus Adolphus

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, but he was unable to prevent the Capture of Maastricht

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by Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange

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. He was recalled to Spain in 1633 and died at Montalbán in 1635, without having been married, and with no issue.

Trivia

He is also a character in the novel The Betrothed, where Alessandro Manzoni

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describes the anger of the Milanese populace towards him, when he leaves Milan in 1629.

References

*Guthrie, P William. ''Battles of the Thirty Years War: From White Mountain to Nordlingen, 1618-1635 '' Greenwood Press (2001)
*Pursell, C Brennan ''The Winter King: Frederick V of the Palatinate and the Coming of the Thirty Years' War'' Ashgate Publishing (2003)
*Black, Jeremy ''European Warfare, 1494-1660.'' Routledge Publishing (2002)
*Lawrence, R David. ''The Complete Soldier: Military Books and Military Culture in Early Stuart England, 1603-1645.'' Brill Academic Publishing.
* Josef V. Polišenský/Frederick Snider: ''War and society in Europe (1618-1648)''. Bristol: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

External links

Zedlers Universallexicon, vol. 6, p. 652-653
*http://www.grandesp.org.uk/historia/gzas/cabra.htm

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1585 births
1635 deaths
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Spanish generals
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